A-type star · white star
Meridiana
Meridiana is a white star in the constellation Corona Australis 125 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,630 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 125 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha CrA · HR 7254 · HD 178253 · HIP 94114
9,630 K
temperature
4.11
apparent magnitude
29.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0/A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
125 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
29.19×
the Sun's light output
1.19
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.